There are many examples of how going green saves you money. Kermit the Frog was wrong – it IS easy being green, and it saves you money at the same time.

As the planet faces a period of warming where our actions are believed to be the prime cause, it makes sense to seek out examples of how going green saves you money and act on them.

That cell phone charger that stays plugged in, the DVD player that waits for the occasional playing, and the TV that sits on standby all night, these are prime examples of how going green saves you money – if you unplug them, that is. For even if the items are not working, they are consuming energy!

Another of the prime examples of how going green saves you money is switching from bottled water to filtered tap water. The average family spends some $1,400 a year on bottled water. And the worst part is that 95% of the plastic bottles are not recycled! For less than $100 you could get a high quality staged water filter to make your tap water perfect.

Examples of how going green saves you money are everywhere. Do you drive as fast as the law allows? You shouldn’t. Car engines perform most efficiently at around 55 miles an hour. If you combine that with gentle driving on properly inflated tires, you will save money and help the planet too.

You could always use a bicycle to travel around town. Or you could simply walk for those short trips. You won’t be pouring hydrocarbons into the atmosphere, warming the planet, you will save money, and you will get some good exercise at the same time. Walking and cycling when you can are excellent examples of how going green saves you money.

Some 65 million newspapers are printed every day in the US. Some 70% of them will not be recycled. What a waste of trees! You can do your bit to help, and read whatever news you want to read at the same time simply by going online. Very few newspapers don’t have an online presence these days, so save some money and read from the web pages.

Do you want more example of how going green saves you money? They are all around you. Just look and you certainly will find them.

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Just like everyone else these days, I am constantly looking for money saving ideas and products.  I look around the Internet and I also look at products that are being offered on various sites where products are posted for sale.  An example of of one of these sites is clickbank.com. 

Money savings, weight loss and treatment for various things like acne are problems that we all have experience or have a family members struggle with.   I don’t just put products on this site for the sake of having more stuff to offer.  I have either thoroughly researched these products or I have friends or family members that can vouch for them.

I realize that everyone is skeptical about money saving products offered on the Internet.  However, if you read thoroughly the product offering, you will find some of them actually have merit and all of them give money back guarantees.

My latest research is taking me down the road of looking into green money saving ideas.  I am not a tree hugger but I do believe in being environmentally friendly.

Take a stroll around this site.  If you see something that looks intriguing, take an open minded look and be on the lookout for some ideas on green living.

Did you know that your very own mind is the most powerful tool in helping you lose the weight you want to lose?

But did you also know that your mind can also be the biggest barrier that is holding you back from losing the weight you want to lose?

As a behavior management expert, I understand that the subconscious mind often times keeps us from actually doing what the conscious mind wants to do.

It’s the reason why someone who wants to stop smoking continues to smoke … why the person who wants to stop procrastinating continues to wait until the last minute … and why the person who wants to lose weight continues to eat unhealthy foods and has a hard time exercising regularly.

It’s simply the way our minds are designed to work – but it may also be the primary reason why you are still struggling and haven’t been successful in the past.

The solution is to unlock your subconscious mind and begin the process of changing the beliefs that control your behavior – the real key to lasting change – and that is exactly what this system is designed to do for you.

The great thing is that other people just like you have discovered that breaking through these barriers is the key to getting past the frustration, living the life they always wanted to live, and experiencing real happiness.

I wonder if these are some of the same things you want to feel right now. The good news is that you can, now that you understand the solution.

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The Migraine and Headache Solution

Article, thanks to Dr. Noble Savage IV

Women are three times more likely to have migraines than men.  This differential does not begin until the females reach puberty.  Sixty per cent of women have migraines related to the menstrual cycle.  About fourteen per cent have migraines purely coordinated with menses.  Could menstrually related migraines be solely linked to estrogen?  That would be like saying migraines are only headaches.  We now know migraines are much, much more than headaches.  Menstrually related migraines are much more than estrogen fluctuating in the body.  Serotonin, prostaglandin, norepinephrine, melatonin, and other chemical levels fluctuate with the menstrual cycle.  Each plays some role in menstrual related migraines. 

Menstrual migraines usually start between two days before the onset of menses and two days after the onset of menses.  A simple option is to take naproxen 500 mg twice a day WITH FOOD during these five days.  It is important to take anti-inflammatory medicine with food to help prevent stomach ulcer formation.  Do not take if you have a history of ulcers, bleeding problems, or allergy to aspirin.  Naproxen will not only help prevent migraines, but it will also help reduce cramping.  Certain over-the counter supplements can be helpful.

NEVER take triphasic birth control pills.  Even women who do not have menstrual migraines seem to do better on monophasic birth control pills.  Oral contraceptives can come in packs with different color pills—twenty one pills of one color and seven of another color.  This would be a monophasic pack—either you are on estrogen or you are not. 

 A bi- or triphasic pack would have several different color pills.  Every time the color changes, the estrogen dose changes.  This is a roller coaster you do not want to be on.  The concept of women perpetuating monthly menses must have come from a committee of men.  Who wants to have monthly menses?  So she can know she is not pregnant?  Well, I have a son that disproved that notion.  No, women would consider the twenty eight day cycle to be normal is the reason given, and anything different would be perceived as abnormal.  I frequently recommend my migraineurs to leave off the placebo pills and just take the oral contraceptives for three months or more.  The longer they have been on the pills, the easier the transition occurs.  Actually, if a woman wanted to have one menses a year, I would have no objection.  Now that oral contraceptives have a very low dose of hormones, it is very important to take the pill approximately the same hour each and every day seven days a week.  This lessens the chance of spotting or bleeding.  Some women do better with their headaches if they take the pill at night; however, it needs to be the same hour each and every night seven days a week.  Bedtime for most people is not the same every night, but they would do better in general.  Migraineurs often tolerate birth control pills very well when they are taking a monophasic pill; however, some women cannot tolerate the pill.  Smoking is a no-no:  especially with migraines!  Smoking and taking oral contraceptives is suicidal!  The risks of strokes and blood clots are increased.  DO NOT SMOKE!  For women do not have to be concerned about pregnancy, one possible way to decrease menstrual migraines is to wear an estrogen patch, apply estrogen topically, or take estrogen orally at the time of menses.

Triptans are medicine used to stop migraines.  As a general rule, triptans are not used to prevent migraines.  Nevertheless, in menstrual migraines, using triptans maybe helpful and are given once or even two or three times a day during the five day window of greatest problems.  To find out more, go to The Migraine and Headache Soloution

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In world where their’s a myriad of home based businesses it can be difficult and time consuming to find the one that works, and that will put you into profit, while freeing up most of your time.

There are lot of systems out there that pride them selves on tons of BOGUS software and products such as: e-books outdated software and other fluff that they put up to front that they in fact a real work at home business, when in fact its just a cloak for reselling the business and by definition is defined as a ‘a pyramid scheme’.

The 1980’s saw a ton of these rise and fall quickly leaving the guys at the bottom nothing, and fat wallet for owner. Today there is internet go figure. This is why its important when looking at any business to evaluate the product for REAL MARKET VALUE, this will be the greatest indicator of success. First of all pyramid schemes have no real product ( or pretend to such as old software, e-books and other no use junk people will never buy. Perfect examples of this are: big ticket to wealth, road map to riches, passport to wealth, perfect wealth formula, craig garcia and michael corcoran s edc, edc gold and edc diamond.

This is a common tactic you will see in over hype internet businesses and are a tell tale sign of a flat outright scam. Often these so called products are a cover up for a pyramid scheme, it just astounds me how many so called businesses online and abroad are blatant pyramid schemes. No there’s nothing wrong with having a sign up fee as long as legit products are being sold, not just the opportunity that will definitely crumble the pyramid leaving you in the rumble and the top point or owners wealthy. Just ask around and see if anyone involved with the business your looking at really made a dime, because this so rare. However if you can read between the lines you’ll learn the truth that they only sell the business. Even if you are comfortable with just reselling the business I can guarantee that only the original few that first joined are going to have the bulk of the sales and continue to parade their “heavy hitters” over and over again as if you too will make millions, while everyday there on forth the market becomes over saturated and sales slow to a trickle and inevitably the business implodes and crashes down on your dream of being rich. The END.

For me, I like to blog and I like to make money. I don’t jump into get rich quick things that have little chance of success. So, I have started my like blog to make money enterprise.  I have found the tools and products that have helped me to gradually become successful.  However, just like anything that actually makes money, it takes hard work.

Are you looking at an Internet Biz Opp?  Does that biz opp have a bunch of 2nd rate e-books and old software that no one in their right mind would ever really buy.  Are you told that people really do sell that junk, only to find out on closer inspection they only sell and resell the business. Well then you probably uncovered another garden variety pyramid scheme infesting the internet left and right.

I read a great article on the impact credit card interest rates have on your credit and how Credit Card debt can destroy your wealth potential.  The article (6 steps to reducing your credit card interest rates) was written by Jay Peroni and was reprinted  on ChristianPF.com.

Step 1: Find out your current interest rates on your credit cards.

Step 2: Shop around and find what competing cards are charging for interest.

Step 3: Call your credit card companies and ask to speak to a supervisor or manager. Use competitor rates to negotiate your rate down. Keep escalating your request up to the next manager if you do not get the answer you are looking for from the first manager you talk to. Be persistent. Don’t back down.

Step 4: While you are at it, negotiate to have your late fees reversed. This is also negotiable. Be prepared to fight back.

Step 5: Set up your future payments to that company to be made au­tomatically. Either use a bill-payment company or have your monthly payments scheduled to automatically hit before their respective due dates.

Step 6: Continue making the largest monthly payment you can make—above the minimum payment.

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Contrary to popular belief, acne bacteria do not cause acne. Life long acne researcher exposes the true connection between acne bacteria and acne formation. Discover why acne is not a problem with your skin.

Propionibacterium acnes, or p acne bacteria, the bacteria we all have on our skin is an essential life form. Like all life forms it fights to survive and sustain their lives. Surprisingly, these microscopic creatures that conventional medicine taught us to believe are the cause of acne, are actually a small part of the acne puzzle and a vital player in sustaining our inner balance and the health of our skin.

Acne bacteria are not contagious and everyone has acne bacteria on their skin, regardless if the individual suffers from acne or not. Streptococcus bacteria, for example, exist in everyone’s throat, but it doesn’t always cause a strep throat or tonsillitis. The reason is that similar to the acne bacteria these bacteria will not trigger the formation of a strep throat (or acne in the case of the acne bacteria) unless the specific condition or the right “environment” is created.

It is important to know that as long as the acne bacteria stays in balance with your internal system, acne bacteria will “mind their own business” and will defend the body from colonization of harmful bacteria. Acne bacteria feed themselves from the secretions of our sweat and sebaceous glands, and in a balanced biological state, sustains the flexibility of our skin.

Acne is an environment that forms only when the production of sebum on the skin is excessive. This excessive production of oil is triggered mainly by hormonal imbalance.

When blood toxins (usually blood toxins that are expelled through your skin) are mixed with this over production of oil, the p.acne invades the hair follicles and starts to multiply. The P. acne multiplies by feeding themselves of the oil using enzymes. As part of this feeding process, acne bacteria produces free fatty acids that irritate the skin. The body calls the white and red blood cells to defend itself. The red and white blood cells often cause an inflammatory response, that results in the familiar symptoms of acne: swelling, pus, whiteheads, nodules and pustules.

Killing the acne bacteria using antibiotics is a fruitless and destructive approach. Taking antibiotic is destructive because it upsets the natural balance of the P.acne in our body, eradicates the good probiotic bacteria and enables the intrusion of harmful bacteria to skin. Taking antibiotics is fruitless because constant intake of antibiotics will eventually cause the p.acne to become resistant to antibiotics. It is a fruitless approach also because it doesn’t stop the environment that caused the P.acne to multiply.

The only way to stop acne permanently is to neutralize the acne environment (when the bacteria multiplies and feeds on blood toxins and excessive production of oil). To stop acne, you must balance oil secretion and discharge your body from accumulated toxins and control the nutritional, hormonal, psychological and environmental triggers.

The secret for permanent clear skin is therefore, neutralizing all the factors that form the acne environment while keeping the p. acne bacteria at an optimal balance.

Mike Walden is a certified nutritionist, independent medical researcher, natural health consultant and author of the #1 best-selling e-book, “Acne No More- Open The Door To An Acne Free Life.” Mike has written dozens of holistic health articles and has been featured in ezines and print magazines, as well as on hundreds of websites worldwide. For information on Mike’s Holistic Clear Skin program, visit: Acne NO More

Acne Diet and The Money Factor: You Can’t Sell a Healthy Diet

Ask any medical doctor if there is a connection between diet and acne and almost all of them will claim there is none. Quoting from the Journal of the American Medical Association: “Diet plays no role in acne treatment in most patients…even large amounts of certain foods have not clinically exacerbated acne”.

With years of medical education and clinical experience behind these claims, how can we the simple folks who suffer from acne challenge these statements and think otherwise? The answer is: doubt. Doubt, if its stays in the borders of reason, can open many doors otherwise will stay forever shut. Believe it or not, doubt can change reality. Doubt can cure your acne and doubt can even save your life.

Fact is, countless of acne sufferers have reported that their acne seemed to get worse when they consumed certain foods and saw dramatic positive change over their acne condition when they eliminated the same foods from their diet and when certain foods with specific nutritional value were incorporated into their diet.

So why do dermatologists so stubbornly insist that diet does not cause acne? The answer: you can’t make a profit promoting a healthy diet. At least not as much money as you could make by selling drugs and over the counters. There is a huge pressure upon doctors coming from the drug and pharmaceutical companies to prescribe expensive medications and lotions that create dependency. The truth is, that your doctor is in a way, a hostage by the trillion dollar drug companies. Did you know that the drug companies, who have no interest in producing something that they cannot control financially, sponsor most medical schools?

The right diet, although not a solution by itself, can, in many cases, dramatically reduce inflammation and even completely clear one’s acne (if you’re one of the lucky ones who’s acne is triggered by allergic response to food). Promoting a clear skin diet simply means less profits for the drug and pharmaceutical companies.

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The truth is that conventional medications will never cure your acne, simply because they are pre-designed NOT to fix the internal cause of acne. They are pre-designed to deal with the external symptoms of a disease as they create more and more dependency and more dependency means making more money all at our expense and ignorance.

The Theory That Diet Doesn’t Cause Acne Is A Myth

The dogmatic theory that diet does not cause acne and that acne is merely an incurable genetic disorder was based upon two dated researches published in 1969 and 1971 that were aimed at studying the connection between diet and acne.

These studies were the foundation of the ‘acne symptoms treatment strategy’, meaning, because acne is a genetic disease that cannot be prevented, the only way to deal with acne would be to tackle its symptoms (bacteria, inflammation, puss, redness, greasiness), by applying creams, antibiotics, taking prescription drugs and over the counters.

Surprisingly enough, years after the above studies were published, clinical trials and in depth researches experimenting the acne diet link have found that the studies from 1969 and 1971 had came to the wrong conclusions and were in fact seriously flawed.

Recent studies have clearly found a significant connection between diet and acne. It appears that the wrong diet is now thought to be one of the leading acne contributing factors that can negatively affect hormonal regulation and the natural process of toxic elimination, which can seriously aggravate one’s existing acne.

Diet Shapes Who You Are (Including Your Acne)

In the same way that crashing waves shape beach cliffs and just like the wind shapes the canyon walls, slowly and methodically over time, so does eating shapes and effects our physic, our internal system, our physical and mental being, from the organ down to the cellular level.

The idea that an object foreign to our body that is inserted by the food that we eat, has no effect on us, or has no impact on chronic conditions such as acne is absurd. Diet is the primary thing that affects and shapes who we are.

Diet has cumulative effect on our bodies, and that includes our skin condition and acne, which is a manifestation of a chronic internal problem slowly shaped and built by the wrong daily dietary choices over the years.

Acne Diet and The Kitavan Islanders

While in the U.S, more than 80% of teenagers between 16 and 18 have acne and more than 17 million Americans suffer from some form of acne, there is an interesting evidence that native people that live and eat in traditional ways, have significantly lower to no occurrences of acne.

In 2002, Dr. Cordain and his colleagues published a landmark study that examined 300 people living in the Kitavan Islands off the coast of Papua New Guinea that showed that none of the islanders had even one blemish on his or her face. Similar to the Kitavans, no case of acne had been observed when the same experiment had been conducted upon the South American Indians called the Ache, living in a remote jungle in eastern Paraguay.

The natives of Kitavan and the South American Indians had no access to the latest over the counters, topical creams or conventional acne medications and they had no dermatologist to consult with. The only vast difference between them and American or European citizens is their diet.

Acne Diet and Sugar: The Sweet Poison

Aside from the fact that sugar is a 100% pure chemical with zero nutritional value, recent studies have clearly shown a connection between the consumption of sugar and the aggravation of acne.

When you consume any form of refined carbohydrates (white sugar, white flour, white rice) here’s what happens: right after you insert that ’sweet poison’ into your body, it rapidly spikes up your blood sugar levels. Your body needs to bring those levels down so it secrets a surge of insulin, other male hormones and an insulin-like growth factor called IGF-1. The excretion of these hormones overwhelms your liver and your internal system in general. The excess of male hormones encourages the skin to excrete large amounts of sebum oil: The greasy substance that encourages the p.acne bacteria to grow, resulting in the aggravation of your acne.

Acne Diet and Dairy Products: Got Milk? Got Acne

If you thought sugar can aggravate your acne, here’s another major nutritional player in the formation of acne: behold the miracles of milk. Milk (all dairy products included) is the most harmful, mucus forming, allergenic and acne aggravating food you can find. Surprised? I thought so. After years of constant brainwashing by the media, who can blame us for thinking milk is good for strong bones and healthy teeth? The truth is: every sip of milk contains 59 different raging hormones, (which trigger the hyper-production of sebum oil resulting in more acne), saturated animal fat, steroid hormones, dead white blood cells, and cow pus in abundance!

Did you know that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allows 750 million pus cells in every liter of milk (about two pounds) produced in America? Think about it, the next time you pop a pimple.

Scientific studies already point the finger at milk as one of the worst acne aggravating foods: “As pointed out by Dr. Jerome Fisher, ‘About 80 percent of cows that are giving milk are pregnant and are throwing off hormones continuously.’ Progesterone breaks down into androgens, which have been implicated as a factor in the development of acne…Dr. Fisher observed that his teenage acne patients improved as soon as the milk drinking stopped.”

If there’s one element you should remove from your diet in the quest for clear skin make it this one. Not only will you see an immediate improvement over your acne, you’ll feel a huge weight has been lifted from your body. If you worry about calcium intake, don’t! Milk being acidic forming food creates a leeching effect where calcium is taken from your bones to balance the acidity. Milk actually deprives your body from its calcium resources. Green leafy vegetables, nuts and seeds are not only excellent sources of calcium they also have the powers to help you fight your acne symptoms.

Diet Is Only One of The Factors That Cause Acne

Dairy products and sugar are not the only acne aggravating foods. The two above cannot sum up the list of western made acne triggering foods. There are several other foods you should clearly stay away from if you ever wish to clear your acne. The good new is that there are tons of other foods such as essential fatty acids that are not only excellent for your skin, they can actually help you clear your acne, by re-balancing your body and promoting to an acne-free environment.

The right nutrition plays an important part in the complex process of acne formation. When doctors claim there is no link between diet and acne because certain individuals can eat specific foods and get acne while others eat the same foods and don’t, these doctors have failed to realize that there are several factors involved in the formation and aggravation of acne and diet is only ONE of them.

The Final Verdict On The Acne Diet Connection: How To Finally Overcome Your Acne Challenge

Acne is a complex condition that is triggered by several underlying factors. The only way to neutralize your acne condition is to tackle all these acne-contributing factors-holistically. Since the wrong diet is only one of these acne-triggering factors, in most cases no special diet can cure acne.

There is a however, a tight connection between diet and acne formation. Dietary factors can trigger and aggravate your existing acne. Avoiding the wrong foods such as milk, sugar and hydrogenated oils, and eating cleansing and hormonal balancing foods such as green leafy vegetables and essential fatty acids, can help your skin heal itself from the inside out and dramatically reduce your acne symptoms.

There are also several important dietary principals that you must understand and follow if you ever want to cure your acne for good.

Taking responsibility over your body and adhering to these dietary principals along with taking the necessary steps to tackle all acne contributing factors, holistically, will not only cure your acne permanently and give you the flawless acne free skin you deserve, following these principals will also significantly improve your overall health, mental well-being, look and feel.

Mike Walden is a certified nutritionist, independent medical researcher, natural health consultant and author of the #1 best-selling e-book, “Acne No More- Open The Door To An Acne Free Life.” Mike has written dozens of holistic health articles and has been featured in ezines and print magazines, as well as on hundreds of websites worldwide. For information on Mike’s Holistic Clear Skin program, visit: Acne No More